This is an analysis of the poem Oh Fair Enough Are Sky And Plain that begins with:
Oh fair enough are sky and plain,
But I know fairer far: ... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: abab abab caca dede
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11011111 111101 11110001 100101 01110111 011111 01111101 111101 11011101 111101 01010101 011111 10010101 1101011 01011111 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 117
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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